I’m really liking Tweetdeck in Ubuntu! It relies on Adobe Air so here’s a quick “how to install” with Adobe Air and Ubuntu Linux.
1) Install Adobe Air in Ubuntu Linux
Go to the Adobe Air download page, and download the latest .bin file. (AdobeAIRInstaller.bin). Save the downloaded file in your Home folder. Next, run this command from Terminal:
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Now run this command:
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Follow the instructions and quite quickly you’ll end up seeing this screen:
2) Install Tweetdeck:
Go to the Tweetdeck site, and scroll down to the “Download TweetDeck beta for Linux (manual installation)” section.
Click the “TweetDeck AIR file” link and open with Adobe Air:
After clicking install, you’ll see:
And finally, Tweetdeck arrives!
Props to Tom for showing me Tweetdeck today 
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I created a video tutorial to install TweetDeck
What theme are you using?
Thanks for this – it was useful. You are linking to an old version of the installer now, but that’s not a problem as the app prompts for an update. However, you’ll be screwed when they remove or move that direct link from their server.
@coxy – thanks for the heads up. Post updated!
I tried doing this on a fresh install of Kubuntu. For some reason I get an error message when trying to install Adobe Air that says I need gnome-keyring or Kwallet. Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? I’m pretty fresh to this whole Linux thing.
Here is the actual message verbatim.
Adobe AIR could not be installed. Either gnome-keyring or Kwallet must be installed prior to installing Adobe AIR.
Thank you. Tweetdeck are absolutely hopeless in every regard at providing usable information for their users.
Not working for me. Says cmod is: command not found
@George – try chmod – that’s the command we’re using in this post:
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Adobe Air installs fine, but no manual link at all on the TweetDeck site. please help.
ok, got it from: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/TweetDeck_0_20.air
Thank you. The TweetDeck site wasn't working.
I got this “[sudo] password for rodney:”
how do I make the password?
Thanks for direct link Mike, TweetDeck site didn't want to give up the goodies for me!
they removed that link so you can get tweetdeck on your ubuntu box anymore! that sucks!
ah found a working link! here! http://tweetdeck.com/go/download/tweetdeck
Thanks for the information. Very helpful.
Hi.. I am having an issue… I am trying to install Adobe AIR but all I get is: “An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator”.
I have tried just about anything before issuing the command: “sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” like closing firefox, making sure the /opt/Adobe Air directory does not exist.
Actually Adobe Air was working fine.. up until I decided to run “Computer Janitor” thats when Adobe Air started to get messed up…
Please shed some light over this issue…
I will really appreciate it.
Felipe the SAME THING happened to me! I ran computer janitor, and it messed everything up.
Fixed it! Yay!
Felipe Run:
$sudo dpkg –purge adobe-certs
then
$chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
$sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin